Tell me about sedums

[ducks4you]

DD, who lives on the other side of the state, brought me a potted plant for Mother's Day. Got around to looking it up and I discover it's a sedum, something yellow, I Think it's a creeper.
I was surprised that there were 3 plants instead of 1. They are all in my front flower beds, separated so that they Can spread, if they, indeed, will.
Who grows sedums? Give me a Sedum Primer, please. Thanks!

 

[flowerbug]

i'm not familiar with any yellow kinds. we have a red sedum which is low growing and is mostly ignored until it gets full of weeds at which point we have to dig it up and replant after weeding. otherwise i spend too much time trying to get all the grasses out of there one grass root at a time, which doesn't work well when you're trying to track it down through and under the weed barrier fabric which is no longer really functional at all... the deer ate a lot of it in one patch last winter but looking at that patch now you'd not think anything happened to it at all.

 

[catjac1975]

DD, who lives on the other side of the state, brought me a potted plant for Mother's Day. Got around to looking it up and I discover it's a sedum, something yellow, I Think it's a creeper.
I was surprised that there were 3 plants instead of 1. They are all in my front flower beds, separated so that they Can spread, if they, indeed, will.
Who grows sedums? Give me a Sedum Primer, please. Thanks!

When I moved into my house 40 plus years ago I found 1 lonely sedum. I have since intentionally spread it everywhere, It is lovely for 2-3 weeks a year. It speads a lot, but if it gets too thick I yank out a handful and put it somewhere else to grow. It helps to keep weed down, and helps keep the soil moist. I know there are many sedum cultivars.. I have bought some lovely ones that did not live forever like the old fashioned kind.

 

[ducks4you]

What are the old fashioned kind?

 

[catjac1975]

What are the old fashioned kind?
Google yellow sedum in photos and you will see all of the new hybrids as opposed to the one Iposted.

 

[henless]

I bought a Delosperma Cooperi (ice plant) today at Walmart for 99 cents.

It's supposed to be a perennial and hardy in zones 5-9. I've got it in a pot & a hanging basket. It gets 3-6 inches tall and can spread up to 2 feet.

I have another sedum that I have had for years. I do nothing to it except water it every once in a while. The flowers on it are a light pink.

There are so many different kinds of sedum.

 

[ducks4you]

This isn't sedums, BUT, here are petunias that reseeded from last year. Never know that they would do this.

 

[henless]

Those look like what we call "ole timey" petunias. They reseed & come back more & more every year. I've seen them in colors of white, pinks & purples. So pretty!